Machine for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes.



. A. L. RUSSELL.

MACHINE FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES. APPLIOATION FILED on. so, 1908.

1,093,651. Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

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NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW MACHINE FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification of Ietters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914:.

Application filed October 30,1908. Serial No. 460,332.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. RUSSELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hyde Park, in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Use in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, of which the following description,

in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to machines for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes and particularly to machines for operating upon a shoe after the welt has been sewed to it. The welt attaching operation leaves the welt somewhat fulled transversely. By pulling the welt outwardly from the shoe this fullness can be removed, a trimmer appearance given to the shoe and the full width of the welt strip utilized so that a somewhat narrower strip than heretofore can be used with equal or better advantage.

An important feature of this invention consists in relatively actuating a hammer, an anvil and a shoe rest or support to effect the beating of the welt and the pulling of the welt outwardly from the shoe to straighten and shape it preparatory to the sole attaching operation. In the simplest embodiment of the invention the hammer beats the welt upon a stationary anvil and the shoe rest moves the shoe outwardly from the machine while the welt is gripped between the hammer and the anvil whereby the welt is straightened out or pulled in the direction of its width. The hammer will preferably be yieldingly actuated through a spring which enables the hammer to adapt itself to different thicknesses of welt stock and which is compressed while the eccentric or other driver of the actuating mechanism completes its stroke. The shoe may be moved to pull the welt after the hammer has spent its force in the beating stroke so that the beating and pulling alternate, the pulling taking place while the hammer holds the welt upon the anvil and before the hammer spring has expanded to permit the hammer to rise from the welt. The welt pulling i'may be effected by actuating the hammer and the anvil or either of them transversely ;of the welt while the rest holds the shoe ;from similar movement.

Provision is made according to a further feature of this invention for controlling the Twelt pulling movement whereby the operator may start it when it is needed and may idiscontinue it if in his judgment any shoe -or any portion of a shoe would not be beneifited by having the welt pulled or straight- :ened out. This same controlling means may Ealso be employed to vary the extent of the iwelt pulling movement on different shoes or Eon different parts of the same shoe. Provision maybe made for adjusting in a permanent manner the actuating mechanism to impart different relative lengths of beating and welt pulling strokes instead of leaving it to the operators care.

A further feature of this invention con sists in providing novel means for taking out the curl usually found in the welt at the toe end or other convex edge portion of the shoe edge. This curl is caused by bending the welt edgewise in sewing it to the shoe and must be removed before the sole attaching operation inorder to permit the welt to lie flat upon the sole. In accordance with this invention means is provided for stretching the welt lengthwise and preferably the welt stretching operation is made to take place while the operation of beating and pulling or either heating or pulling the welt of the shoe is being carried on. For example, the stretching and the beating at a given point may be alternately effected as by a hammer, an anvil and a stretching device between which the welt is progressively fed. As herein shown the stretching device is mounted upon one portion of a wide anvil and the cooperating hainmerstretches one portion of the welt and beats an adjacent portion which may have been stretched at the last previous blow of the hammer. Preferably provision is made for stretching the outer edge portion of the welt to the greatest extent. The outer portion of the welt at a convex portion of the shoe edge obviously requires to be of greater length than the inner portion and as herein shown the stretching of the welt increases toward the outer edge and is effected by a wedge shaped or tapering support over which the welt is bent or pressed by the hammer which has a portion of its face suitably shaped for that purpose.

Another feature of this invention consists in providing means whereby the operator can control the welt stretching means to obtain the stretching action at such times and to such varying extents as the different portions of the shoe may require. Thus a maximum stretching may be obtained at the most curled toe end portion of the welt, less at the corners of the toe and none at all at the sides where the welt is nearly straight.

These and other features of the invention including certain details of construction and combinations of parts will be apparent in connection with the following description and will be pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a welt shaping machine embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the anvil and the shoe rest or pusher. Fig. 3 represents diametrically the relative paths of the hammer and the shoe rest. Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the hammer and the anvil have a welt pulling movement with relation to a fixed shoe rest. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the anvil and shoe rest of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 indicates the approximate path of the hammer in Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a sectional detail of Fig. 4. Fig. 8 shows a modified construction of mechanism for actuating the hammer and the anvil, together with means for stretching the welt lengthwise. Fig. 9 is a detail of Fig. 8. Fig. 10 shows a modification of Fig. 1 in which the pusher actuating mechanism is under control of the operator to start it and vary its stroke as the conditions of the work may require. Fig. 11 shows a modification of the structure of Fig. 4 with a diiferent'means for operating the anvil. Fig. 12 shows the attachment of Fig. 9 applied to the machine of Fig. 10.

The head of the machine has bearings for a transverse shaft 2 which has a pulley 4, shown in Fig. 1, and an eccentric 5 which through a suitable slide working in a slot in the rear end of the lever 6 rapidly oscillates that lever about its fulcrum 8. The lever has in its front end a hammer 1O arranged to yield vertically therein against a spring 12. The anvil 13 is supported on the machine head below the hammer and is shaped to extend under the welt and into the welt crease for giving support to the welt under the hammer. The shaft 2 has a worm, not shown, which drives the worm gear 15 on a short shaft 16 which carries an edge groove cam 18. A slide 20 has a roll standing in the cam groove and is guided through the head and through the anvil. A

head 22 is formed on the front end of the slide, as shown best in Fig. 2, which serves as a rest for the shoe and by its advance movement pushes the shoe outwardly from the machine. The cam is timed with relation to the eccentric to thrust the shoe outwardly when the welt is gripped between the hammer and the face of the anvil whereby the welt is pulled transversely or otherwise. This timing may be as shown in Fig. 3 to begin the welt pulling movement after the hammer has struck the stock and while the spring 12 is being compressed and is expanding during the completion of the stroke of eccentric 5. The welt pulling movements may be less frequent than the welt beating strokes of the hammer according to the formation of the cam 12.

The welt beating and the welt pulling movements may be derived more directly from the same eccentric and be of the same frequency, as shown in Fig. 4, where the hammer lever is directly connected to the eccentric 5 and is supported on a link or a pair of links 25. This connection gives to the hammer a forward and backward movement as well as an up and down stroke. The path of these combined movements may be as indicated in Fig. 6 according to the position of the pivot 29 for the links 25. These links of course partake of the forward and backward stroke of the lever and the hammer and in this construction one of the links is connected by a rod 30 with the anvil indicated at 32 which is arranged to slide in the stationary shoe rest 34. This arrangement gives to the anvil and the hammer a backward movement while they hold the welt gripped between them and pulls the welt outwardly from the shoe which is held against the rest. The welt pulling movement should of course be merely suflicient to straighten out the welt, shaping it so that it will lie snugly upon the outersole and taking out the fullness and slack which is sometimes observed in shoes at the present time, without straining the inseam and cansing the stitches to gape. Provision is made by the pin and curved slot connection at 35 in Fig. 4 and in Fig. 10 for varying the extent of the welt pulling movement without changing the welt beating stroke. The nut 36, Fig. 4, gives means to secure the adjustment for any desired pulling stroke. The treadle connection 40 in Fig. 10 provides means by which the operator can start the welt pulling movements at any time and can vary them at different parts of the shoe as the conditions may require. Either of these arrangements for varying the stroke may be employed as may be desired, the form shown in Fig. 10 having all the characteristics of that shown. in Fig. 4 and also having the treadle which can be used when the nut 36 is loosened. The anvil actuating means may be formed, as indicated in Fig. 4:, to mo e the anvil more rapidly than the hammer is moved outwardly to cause the anvil to exert a relative outward pull on the grain side of the welt, which is the side that curls upwardly. By varying the angle of the link 30 in the slotted arm 25, which obviously may be eflected by a treadle arrangement similar to that of Fig. 10, the operator can cause the machine to beat the welt and outwardly pull the two sides equally at the sides of the shoe and then beat and outwardly pull the grain side more than the flesh side at the toe to straighten out the this construction.

In Fig. 9 the anvil 131, which may be like the laterally stationary anvil 13 of Fig. 1 or the outwardly movable anvil 32 of Fig. 4:, supports near one end the tapering or wedge shaped block 45 which is shaped to bend the welt, in cooperation with the hammer face 101, recessed at 46-, but otherwise like that of the hammer head of Fig. 10, in a manner to stretch the welt lengthwise. This tapering form of the block causes the welt to be stretched most at its outer edge. Yielding welt supporting members 47 normally raised by spring 43 may be arranged at either side of the stretching block 45, as shown in Fig. 9, and adapted to be depressed below the acting surface of the anvil. The welt is gripped between these supporting members and the hammer and held taut thereby while being forced downwardly and bent over the stretching block. While the stretching block and these welt supporting members are shown as carried upon the block which also constitutes the anvil against which the hammer by its plane face beats'the welt, this construction is employed merely for convenience and the support for these stretching devices may be entirely independent of the anvil structurally as well as functionally. It should also be understood that the welt stretching devices may be employed in a machine which does not beat the welt and the welt thus stretched may be beaten or both beaten and outwardly pulled in a separate machine. The block 45 and the welt supporting members 47 are mounted on a slide 48 which has connections 49, 50, 51, to a suitable treadle, not shown, by which said stretching devices may be positioned with the aid ofa spring 52 to render them operative when and to the extent needed for the different portions of the shoe.

The welt stretching means may be used with the machine as shown in Figs. 1 and t and its use is also shown in Fig. 8 with a modified arrangement of welt beating and welt pulling devices in which the hammer lever 60 is a bell crank fulcrumed 'on the block 62 and connected by the link 64 with stitches gape.

the anvil. This gives a movement from the tionary shoe rest 65 while giving to the hammer its vertical welt beating movement.

Fig. 11 shows an arrangement of the links 25 and fulcrums 29 of Fig. 4 by which the hammer strikes nearly straight downwardly upon a retracting anvil actuated through the rod 302 by a cam 31. This arrangement causes the anvil to give to the grain side of the welt, which is usually curled upwardly, an especial pull tending to take out Qthe curl. curl. Thls is an important characteristic of a In the use of the invention the operator presents the shoe in his hands against the .side rest and with the welt between the hammer and the anvil. The hammer beats the welt as the shoe is fed along by the operator and the relative movement between the rest and the hammer and anvil while the latter parts gri the welt pulls the welt to straighten it out to its full width, and thus shape it. The extent of the pulling movement may be determined by the adjustment shown in Fig. 4 or may be controlled by the operator from a treadle as explained in connection with Fig. 10 to give the required straightening and shaping of the welt without putting enough tension or strain on the welt to injure the inseam or make the At the toe, and any other places where the welt requires stretching to uncurl it or make it assume proper position for attachment to the outersole, the wedge block 45 and the welt supporting members 47 may be projected under the welt to cause the welt to be stretched lengthwise as it is beaten in the direction of its thickness by the plane portion of the hammer face, and pulled widthwise. This longitudinal stretching will vary in degree and in the portion of the welt, considered widthwise, that is affected according to the position to which the operator projects the block. Adjacent portions of the welt may, by the illustrated arrangement, be first stretched lengthwise and then beaten flat to set the leather in its stretched condition and also the recessed face of the hammer is preferably formed to apply considerable pressure to that part of the welt that lies over the wedge block, so that that portion of the welt is simultaneously stretched and compressed. The force of the hammer is of course first received upon the yieldingly upheld portion of the welt which, descending with the supporting members 47 is subjected to pressure as distinguished from the impact which is characteristic of the beating to which the stretched portion of the welt is subjected by the plane face of the hammer to set the stretch as the shoe advances. It will be observed that when the welt pulling movement occurs less frequently than the welt beating movements a section of Welt is beaten by the subsequent strokes of the hammer after it has been pulled widthwise. This subsequent beating sets the welt in its pulled relation to the shoe. Also if the welt is straightened out from the shoe by the pulling movement the subsequent blow of the hammer beats a portion which was too close to the inseamto be engaged by the hammer in its first blow. It may be remarked that the hammer is operated at such a speed, usually about two thousand blows per minute, that an operator will not ordlnarily advance the shoe fast enough so that a portion of the welt will not be subjected to two or more blows from different portions of the hammer face of usual width.

It will be understood from Fig. 12 that the stretching device 45 may be used with the moving shoe rest of Fig. 1, while Fig. 8 shows how it may be employed with a moving anvil. The manual control of the welt pulling movement shown in Fig. 10 may be used with the construction shown in the other figures by changes requiring only mechanical skill and which are not therefore necessary to illustrate herein. Likewise this manual control may be substituted for the adjusting means 35 of Fig. 4.

It has been found that by the use of this invention the outward tension or pull applied to the welt relatively to the body of the shoe tends to draw down and flatten the inseam and between-substance toward the face of the last bottom, so that after the welt has been beaten the inseam .and between-substance do not stand up so high above the surface of the middle portion of the shoe and a little less filling material is required in order to build up the middle portion of the shoe bottom to the level of the between-substance.

Having explained the nature of this invention and described how it may be embodied in form to. be used, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

1. A welt shaping machine having, in combination, a support for the welt, a hammer, means for operating the hammer to beat the welt including connections with the hammer constructed to prevent variation in the angular relation of the hammer to its path of movement toward the welt for successive operations of the hammer, and means for relatively moving the hammer and the shoe to effect a pulling action on the welt in addition to the beating operation.

2. A welt shaping machine having, in combination, a support for the welt, a hammer, means for operating the hammer to beat the welt including connections with the hammer constructed to prevent variation in the angular relation of the hammer to its path of movement toward the welt for successive operations of the hammer, a shoe rest, and means for relatively moving said hammer and rest to subject the welt to a pulling action in the direction of its width during the beating operation.

3. A welt shaping machine of the class described, having in combination, an anvil, a hammer, a shoe rest and means for relatively actuating said devices to beat the welt between the hammer and the anvil and then force the shoe laterally from the portion of the welt held between the hammer and anvil.

4. A welt shaping machine having, in combination, a welt beating hammer, an anvil which is of adequate dimensions to render it rigid in the direction of the hammer blows, said machine being arranged to present an unobstructed space between the hammer and said anvil for the direct engagement of both the hammer and said anvil with the welt, means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt, a shoe rest, and means for actuating the rest relatively to the hammer and the anvil and in a direc tion to push the shoe away from the machine while the hammer and anvil hold the welt.

5. A welt shaping machine of the class described, having in combination, an anvil, a hammer, a shoe rest and means for relatively actuating said devices to beat and pull a welt, said machine having provision for varying the relative beating and pulling movements.

6. A welt shaping machine of the class described, having in combination, an anvil, a hammer, a shoe rest, means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt, means for actuating the rest to effect pulling of the welt and means whereby the movement of the rest may be varied.

7. A machine of the class described, having in combination, an anvil, a hammer, means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt, said means being constructed to prevent variation in the angular relation of the hammer to the anvil at the beginning of successive operative movements of the hammer toward the welt and including a spring arranged to be compressed when the 11ammer strikes the welt and to permit the hammer to dwell upon the work during the com pression and the expansion of said spring, and means for relatively moving the shoe and the hammer laterally while the welt is gripped, whereby the welt is subjected to tension in the direction of its width.

8. A welt shaping machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest, means for actuating the hammer and means for actuating the rest at an angle to the direction of the hammer stroke and in time relation therewith.

9. A welt shaping machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil, a shoe! rest, means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt and means for actuating the anvil and the rest relatively to subject the welt to lateral pull.

10. A welt shaping machine having, 111% combination, a welt beater, means for actu ating it to beat the welt of a welted shoe, an anvil which is of adequate proportions to support unaided the welt rigidly against the action of the beater, said machine being arranged for direct engagement of both the, heater and said anvil with the opposed'faces of the welt, a lateral rest for the shoe and, means for relatively actuating said rest and said anvil to pull the welt outwardly rela-. tively to the shoe while the welt is gripped between the beater and the anvil. I

11. A machine of the class described,hav-; ing in combination, welt beating means and means for moving the shoe outwardly fromthe machine in time relation to the beatin means to pull the welt widthwise.

12. A welt shaping machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest guided in the anvil and means for actuating the hammer toward and from the welt and for actuating the rest toward and from the side of the shoe.

13. A welt shaping'machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil located to cooperate with the hammer, a shoe rest and means for actuating the hammer and the rest in different directions in time'relation.

14. A shoe shaping machine having in combination, welt engaging devices and means to operate said devices for extending the welt of a welted shoe lengthwise,'said machine having provision for causing said devices to hold the welt so extended, and means for actuating them for pulling the welt widthwise.

15. A welt beating machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil and a shoe rest relatively movable to cooperate with the hammer to effect a pulling of the welt widthwise; and actuating mechanism for the hammer and the said relatively movable part having provision for varying the relative movement of the hammer and said part.

16. A welt beating machine having in combination, a'hammer, an anvil and a shoe rest, and'actuating mechanism for causing the hammer to beat the welt and for causing the welt to be pulled outwardly from the shoe, said mechanism having provision for varying the relative extents of the beating and the pulling movements.

17. A welt beating machine having in combination, 'a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest, mechanism for actuating the hammer to beat the welt and means for actuating both the hammer and one of said other parts to pull the welt while it is gripped between the hammer and the anvil, said machine having provision for varying'relatively the movements imparted to the hammer and the said other movable part to pull the welt.

18. A welt beating machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest, mechanism for actuating the hammer to beat the welt and means for actuating both the hammer and one of said other parts to pull the welt while it is gripped between the hammer and the anvil, said machine having provision for causing the said other movable part to move for pulling the welt faster than the hammer moves.

19. A welt shaping machine comprising a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest, and means for actuating said parts relatively and in timed relation to pull the welt outwardly from v the shoe and then to beat the welt in its new relation to the shoe.

20. A welt shaping machine comprising a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest, means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt and means to advance the rest to force the shoe away and thus pull the welt outward relatively to the inseam while the welt is gripped between the anvil and hammer, and then retract the rest to permit the shoe to be presented in position for the straightened out welt to be beaten for shaping it and setting it in its straightened relation to the inseam. v

21. A welt shaping machine comprising a hammer, an anvil, a shoe rest, means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt and means adapted to be rendered operative or inoperative to actuate said parts relatively for pulling the Welt widthwise.

22. A welt shaping machine comprising a hammer,an anvil,'a shoe rest,means for actuating the hammer to beat the welt and means for relatively actuatingsaid parts to pull the welt widthwise, said machine having provision for varying the extent of the pulling movement.

23. A machine of the class described,having in combination, an anvil, a hammer, means for actuating the hammer to beat a welt, and means for causing the welt to be stretched lengthwise.

24. In a machine of the class described, welt stretching means engaging the welt on its upper and its lower sides and having non-uniform welt engaging faces formed to deflect the welt outof a straight course, and

actuating means arranged to move said de vices relatively to effect stretching of the welt lengthwise, said working faces being formed relatively to produce greatest extension of the welt at its outer edge.

25. In a machine of the class described,

welt stretching means engaging the welt on its upper and its lower sides, and actuating means therefor, said welt stretching means having engagin faces formed in non parallel planes to deflect the welt out of a straight course and, further, to stretch the welt in progressively decreasing degree from its outward edge inwardly.

26. A beating machine of the class described, having in combination, an anvil having a portion provided with a convex work supporting face, a hammer having'a portion of its acting face correspondingly concaved, and means for actuating the hammer to stretch and beat the attached welt of a welted shoe.

27. A machine of the class described having in combination, an anvil having a portion provided with a convex work supporting face, and a portion located beyond the convex portion in the direction of the advance of the work and provided with a plane face, a hammer having correspondingly shaped and arranged portions of its acting face and means for actuating the hammer to stretch the welt lengthwise between the conveXed faces and. then beat it between the plane faces to set it in stretched condition.

28. A machine of the class described having in combination, a stretching device, and means for gripping the welt of a welted shoe at opposite sides of the stretching device and forcing it upon the stretching device to extend its length.

29. A machine of the class described having in combination, a stretching device, and means for gripping the welt of a welted shoe at opposite sides of the stretching device and relatively actuating the stretching device and the welt to bend the welt out of its normal plane while it is held between the gripping means.

30. A machine of the class described having" in combination, yielding welt supporting members 47, a cooperating" device 10 for gripping the welt on said members and depressing the welt and supporting members and a stretching device 45 over which the welt is forced downwardly and bent while it is so gripped.

31. A welt shaping machine having in combination, means for gripping the welt of a welted shoe at two points in its length and means for stretching the welt lengthwise between said points while it is held by the gripping means.

32. A welt shapin combination, means or gripping the welt at two points in its length and means for stretching the welt lengthwise between said points while it is held by the gripping means,

and means for subsequently beating the stretched portion of the welt while another portion is being stretched.

33. A machine for taking the curl out of I a welt at the toe of a shoe, having, in combination, means for holding the welt of a welted shoe at two points and means for stretching the welt between said points bar-- ing provision for stretching the welt most at its outer edge.

34. A machine for taking the curl out of a welt at the toe of a shoe, having, in combination, a wedge block,- means for holding the welt at two points and means for bending the welt between said points over the wedge block and subjecting the welt to pressure while it is so bent.

35. A machine for taking the curl out of a welt at the toe of a shoe, having, in combination, a stretching device, means for holding the welt at two points, and means for bending the welt between said points over the stretching device and for beating the welt to set it in its stretched condition.

36. A machine of the class described, having, in combination with actuating mechanism, means for engaging and pulling a welt widthwise, and means for stretching the welt lengthwise.

37. A machine of the class described, having, in combination with actuating mechanism, means for engaging and pulling a welt widthwise, means for stretching the weltlengthwise, and means for beating the welt.

38. A machine of the class described, organized to operate upon the welt of a welted shoe and having, in combination, means for beating the welt and means for stretching it lengthwise.

39. A machine of the class described, organized to operate upon the welt of a welted shoe and having, in combination, means for successively stretching lengthwise and beating the attached welt of the shoe.

40. A machine of the class described, organized to operate upon the welt of a welted Shoe and having, in combination, means for stretching one portion of the welt and beatmg another portion in the same operation of the machine.

41. A welt beating machine having, in combination, welt beating means and means adapted to be rendered operative or inoperative for stretching the welt lengthwise.

42. A welt beating machine having in combination, means adapted to stretch the 1 operation of the welt stretching means. machine having in 43. A welt beating machine having in combination, means adapted to be rendered operative or inoperative for stretching the welt of a welted shoe lengthwise. and means under control of the operator for varying the extent to which the welt shall be stretched.

44. A weltbeating machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil, a tapering welt stretching device adapted to stretch the welt of a welted shoe most at its outer edge and means under control of the operator for determining the position of said device to vary the extent to which the welt shall be stretched at difierent portions of the shoe.

45. A welt beating machine having in combination, a hammer, an anvil, a. tapering weltstretching device and means for advancing and retracting the stretching device between the hammer and the anvil.

46. A welt shaping machine having in combination, a hammer having a recessed face and an anvil having a protuberance opposed to the recess in the hammer face and means for actuating the hammer up and down and relatively actuating the hammer and the shoe in and out for subjecting the welt of the shoe to compression in the direction of its thickness and to extension in the direction of its width and length.

47. A welt shaping machine having in combination, with suitable actuating mech anism, means for subjecting the welt of a shoe to extension in the direction of its width and means adapted to be rendered operative or inoperative to subject the welt" to extension in the direction of its length.

4L8. A welt beating machine having in combination, with suitable actuating mechanism, means for beating a welt and pulling the welt outwardly from the shoe equally at the two sides of the welt having provision for adjustment as the operation proceeds to cause the welt to be pulled more on one side than on the other side for straightening out curled portions of the welt.

49. A welt beating machine having in combination, with suitable actuating mechanism, means for pulling a welt outwardly from the shoe having provision under control of the operator to cause the pulling means to pull one side face of the welt more than the other to uncurl the welt.

50. A welt shaping machine having, in

combination, a support upon which the welt directly rests, a hammer for directly engaging the welt, means for operating the hammer to beat the welt including connections wit-h the hammer constructed to prevent variation in the angular relation of the hammer to its path of movement toward the welt for successive operations of the hammer, and means for moving the hammer and welt relatively in the direction of the width of the welt to subject the welt to a lateral pull while in engagement with the hammer.

51. A welt shaping machine having, in combination, a support for the welt, a shoe rest, a hammer, a lever carrying the hammer, means for operating'the lever to cause the hammer to beat the welt, said hammer being mounted on the lever in fixed angular relation thereto, and means for relatively moving the hammer and the shoe to efiect a pulling action on the welt during the beating operation.

52. A welt shaping machine having, in combination, a support for the welt, a hammer, a lever carrying the hammer, means for operating the lever to cause the hammer to beat the welt, said hammer being movable with respect to the lever in fixed angular relation thereto, a spring for opposing said relative movement of the hammer in one direction, and means for relatively moving the hammer and the shoe in a direction to exert a lateral pulling action on the welt during the beating operation.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR L. RUSSELL.

WVitnesses:

FREDERICK L. EDMANDS, ELTZABETH G. COUPE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,093,651.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,093,651, granted April 21, 1914, upon the application of Arthur L. Russell, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Machines for Use in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 26, for the word diametrically? read diagrammatically; and same page, line 83, for the reference-numeral 12 read 18; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice. I

Signed and sealed this 6th day of October, A. D., 1914.

[sEAL.] R; F. WHITEHEAD,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

